Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Henry Ward Beecher

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
Elbert Hubbard

I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object.
Andrew Wyeth

Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.
Karl Popper

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.
Horatio Nelson

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
Matthew Arnold

When we are not sure, we are alive.
Graham Greene

The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.
Graham Greene

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.
Pearl Bailey

I don't care if they eat me alive, I've got better things to do then survive.
Ani DiFranco

But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - toward a reality of creatures that are actually alive and we're mixing up puppetry and all kinds of other techniques.
Jim Henson

My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible.
Jacques Derrida

Paul the apostle recounted that Jesus appeared to more than 500 of His followers at one time, the majority of whom were still alive and who could confirm what Paul wrote.
Josh McDowell

Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.
Josh McDowell

Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.
Waylon Jennings

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
Johnny Carson

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
Rita Mae Brown

If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
Johnny Carson

On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives. More than 400 of those first responders did not make it out alive. In rushing into those burning buildings, not one of them asked, 'What God do you pray to?' What beliefs do you hold?'
Michael Bloomberg